Law

Boston Herald | Wednesday, December 18, 2013 | Op-Ed | Is Harvard Law School — that liberal Utopia and bastion of political correctness — sexist? A group of feminist students and alumni thinks so. In a short film available online, a group calling itself the “Shatter...

“Deciding whether democratically enacted statutes pass constitutional muster is what we pay federal judges to do. This uncontroversial concept of “judicial review” is not the same as ‘judicial activism.’ Judicial activism refers to judicial rulings that are inappropriately based on politics rather than law, or rulings that create out of whole cloth new rights not mentioned in the Constitution. By deliberately conflating the concepts of ‘judicial review’ and ‘judicial activism’, politicians deliberately confuse the public and undermine the institutional legitimacy of the court for their own political purposes.”

Like the US, we in Israel have no quarrel with the people of Iran. But we are determined to roll back Iran's aggression. We will not let Iran establish military bases in Syria and we will not let Iran develop nuclear weapons.

This is a liberal argument I’ve been making for a very long time, including at important moments, but it seems an alien idea to sadly many people. I’m proud to be allied intellectually with the @DalaiLama. https://t.co/zJsPenfWWH

Mrs. Clinton in Yale commencement says we need is radical empathy-to disagree without being disagreeable. That from the woman who called 1/2 of the American people irredeemable "deplorables" and continues to do disparage them at every opportunity. How about leading by example?